Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : David, James Corbett (1977-....)
Titre(s) : Dunmore's new world [Texte imprimé] : the extraordinary life of a royal governor in Revolutionary America--with Jacobites, counterfeiters, land schemes, shipwrecks, scalping, Indian politics, runaway slaves, and two illegal royal weddings / James Corbett David
Publication : Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013
Description matérielle : viii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection : Early American histories
Lien à la collection : Early American histories (Charlottesville)
Comprend : Family Politics, 1745-1770 ; The Absence of Empire, 1770-1773 ; Promised Land,
1773-1774 ; A Refugee's Revolution, 1775-1781 ; Abiding Ambitions, 1781-1796 ;
Conclusion, 1796-1809 ; A Note on Method : Biography and Empire.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-260) and index
Dunmore's New World tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Lord Dunmore, the last
royal governor of Virginia, whose long-neglected life boasts a measure of scandal
and intrigue rare in the annals of the colonial world. Dunmore not only issued the
first formal proclamation of emancipation in American history; he also undertook an
unauthorized Indian war in the Ohio Valley, now known as Dunmore's War, that was instrumental
in opening the Kentucky country to white settlement. In this entertaining biography,
James Corbett David brings together a rich cast of characters as he follows Dunmore
on his perilous path through the Atlantic world from 1745 to 1809. Dunmore was a Scots
aristocrat who, even with a family history of treason, managed to obtain a commission
in the British army, a seat in the House of Lords, and three executive appointments
in the American colonies. He was an unusual figure, deeply invested in the imperial
system but quick to break with convention. Despite his 1775 proclamation promising
freedom to slaves of Virginia rebels, Dunmore was himself a slaveholder at a time
when the African slave trade was facing tremendous popular opposition in Great Britain.
He also supported his daughter throughout the scandal that followed her secret, illegal
marriage to the youngest son of George III - a relationship that produced two illegitimate
children, both first cousins of Queen Victoria. Within this single narrative, Dunmore
interacts with Jacobites, slaves, land speculators, frontiersmen, Scots merchants,
poor white fishermen, the French, the Spanish, Shawnees, Creeks, patriots, loyalists,
princes, kings, and a host of others. This history captures the vibrant diversity
of the political universe that Dunmore inhabited alongside the likes of George Washington
and Thomas Jefferson. A transgressive imperialist, Dunmore had an astounding career
that charts the boundaries of what was possible in the Atlantic world in the Age of
Revolution. -- Publisher's description ; Dunmore's New World is the best new book-length
work in early American history that I have seen in more than a decade. The author's
impressive new research offers a view of Revolutionary North America as revealed through
the experiences of a remarkably able, knowledgeable, skillful, and deeply flawed imperial
operative. - Robert M. Calhoon, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, author
of Dominion and Liberty: Ideology and the Anglo-American World, 1660-1801 ; Interweaving
engaging narrative episodes and analysis, James Corbett David may indeed be part of
a new scholarship which restores the drama of the Revolutionary War by making it much
less one-sided. - Andrew O'Shaughnessy, Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson
Studies at Monticello, author of The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the
American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
Sujet(s) : Dunmore, John Murray (1732-1809 ; comte de)
Politique et gouvernement -- Virginie (États-Unis) -- 18e siècle
Politique et gouvernement -- Virginie (États-Unis) -- 19e siècle
Virginie (États-Unis) -- 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
Virginie (États-Unis) -- 1775-1865
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780813934242 (cloth) (acid-free paper). - ISBN 0813934249 (cloth) (acid-free
paper). - ISBN 9780813934259 (erroné) (e-book). - ISBN 0813934257 (e-book). - ISBN
9780813934259 (e-book)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb438241060
Notice n° :
FRBNF43824106
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
